The four pillars of the project are changing software development, establishing ongoing operations, implementing ongoing monitoring and maintenance that ensures software is kept accessible, changing content creation and consumption behaviors, and supply diversity.

Changing software development The objectives for this pillar are to flag the importance of accessibility among software developers, establish accessibility steps and apply the same disciplines as for code issues, security or other performance standards. This means providing training courses to educate developers on what they need to understand, test and evaluate, conducting agile design reviews to identify problem areas before development, and implementing tools to validate accessibility compliance during the coding process.
Establishing ongoing operations After deployment, we implement ongoing monitoring and maintenance to ensure software remains accessible. Some examples are new internal IT processes that include checkpoints for validating accessibility requirements in all Accenture-developed software before it is deployed into production, and the use of third-party monitoring services to detect whether previously accessible items have become inaccessible and need an update.
Changing content creation and consumption behaviors The main objective is to ensure accessibility of existing and new content, which Accenture is doing by leveraging its partnership with Microsoft to create content with little or no effort by using the Microsoft AI platform, introducing web content accessibility-creation tools, and implementing closed captioning and real-time closed captioning for all live events.
Supplier diversity Accenture's goal in terms of supplier diversity is to design and procure accessibility standards by supporting Accenture Procurement in enabling Accenture software and hardware providers to meet company accessibility requirements. For instance, we are working with Microsoft to focus on accessible software products and investments in new features.

Why is the project designed to be ongoing rather than periodically updated?

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